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Habakkuk 2:3
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1 I will astand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.  

The Just Live by Faith

2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
a“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it. 
3 For athe vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will bnot lie.
Though it tarries, cwait for it;
Because it will dsurely come,
It will not tarry. 
4 “Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the ajust shall live by his faith. 

Woe to the Wicked

5 “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
He is a proud man,
And he does not stay at home.
Because he aenlarges his desire as hell,
And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
He gathers to himself all nations
And heaps up for himself all peoples. 
6 “Will not all these atake up a proverb against him,
And a taunting riddle against him, and say,
‘Woe to him who increases
What is not his—how long?
And to him who loads himself with1 many pledges’? 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Habakkuk 2:3

for—assigning the cause why it ought to be committed to writing: because its fulfilment belongs to the future.

the vision is yet for an appointed time— (Daniel 10:14; Daniel 11:27, Daniel 11:35). Though the time appointed by God for the fulfilment be yet future, it should be enough for your faith that God hath spoken it (Lamentations 3:26).

at the end it shall speak—MAURER translates, "it pants for the end." But the antithesis between, "it shall speak," and "not be silent," makes English Version the better rendering. So the Hebrew is translated in Proverbs 12:17. Literally, "breathe out words," "break forth as a blast."

though it tarry, wait for it— (Genesis 49:18).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Habakkuk 2:3:

Isaiah 8:17
Isaiah 60:22
Daniel 8:19
Habakkuk 3:16
Zephaniah 3:8
Haggai 2:19
Zechariah 2:13
Hebrews 10:36
Hebrews 10:37-38

 

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